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Publications

Leader (PI) of the research project "Language Change and Linguistic Variation in 19th-Century Icelandic and the Emergence of a National Standard"

Steering-group member in the research project "Heritage language, linguistic change and cultural identity"

Member of the institute's editorial committee

Other activity

Member of the editorial committee of LexicoNordica

Employment history:

Associate Research Professor at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies from 2006
1990-2006: Editor and scholar at the Institute of Lexicography, University of Iceland
1989-1991: Assistant Professor at the University of Iceland
1981-1989: Lecturer at the University of Iceland

Education:

Cand.mag. in Icelandic linguistics, University of Iceland 1987

BA in Icelandic and French language and litterature, University of Iceland 1981

2010: English influence on the spoken language − with a special focus on its social, semantic and functional conditioning. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 204:43-58. (With Ulla Paatola & Helge Sandøy.)

Lectures

„Language use and language attitudes in 19th century Iceland: Gendered borrowings?“. The symposium Gendering Historical Literacy. Vernacular Writing in the Nordic Countries, 18–20th Century, University of Iceland, March 31st, 2017.

„Icelandic as a national language. The sociolinguistic and ideological foundations of 19th century standardization“. The symposium Standardization in Diversity (19th century Europe), University of Luxembourg, July 7th–8th, 2016.

„The homogeneity of Icelandic: Stability or standardization?“. The panel Historical sociolinguistics: Dispelling myths about the past at Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, University of Murcia, June 15th–18th, 2016.

„Same language – different surroundings: The development of Icelandic in Iceland and North America“. The conference Historical Sociolinguistics and Socio-Cultural Change (HiSoN), Helsinki University, March 10th–11th, 2016.

"Standardization and the dissemination of the standard: Variation in 19th century Icelandic family letters". The conference Effects of Prescriptivism in Language History, University of Leiden, January 21st-22nd, 2016.